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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Graffiti
You bet your sweet bippy.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
Vote for Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey and keep personalities out of politics.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
Quit stalling and get out of here.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
Napalm is the American way.
Data entry tech comment:
U.S. troops used napalm in flamethrowers and bombs during the Vietnam War.
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
Would you let Spiro Agnew grow in your bathtub?
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
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Graffiti
On a billboard in front of a church was a sign which read:
If you want salvation, come in
and a girl added:
If not, call 563-4150.
Where learned: CHURCH ; billboard
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
You are holding the future in your hands.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
Wallace is Rosemary's baby.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant is referring to 1968 presidential candidate George Wallace.
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
Barbeque Lyndon Johnson
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
I hate graffiti!
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
Terminate the hostilities or I'll kill you.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
This door will be out in paperback soon.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; LAVATORY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Tomorrow
Because of lack of interest tomorrow will be cancelled.
Submitter comment:
I had asked the informant previously to note and remember some of the graffiti on john walls. This was what he collected.
Where learned: TOLD AT A PARTY ; john wall
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Oscar
Oscar Orange is the boldest thing since Mickey Mantle.
Where learned: TOLD AT A PARTY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
In days of old, when knights were bold, and toilets weren't invented,
They laid their loads in public roads, and went away contented.
Submitter comment:
Found on public rest room wall at a shopping center near my home.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; RESTROOM WALL
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
God didn't create the world in seven days--he goofed off for six days and then pulled an all-nighter. (Typical archie!)
Submitter comment:
Gathered from desks in the University of Detroit library.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT LIBRARY ; informant's dorm room
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Guiding Light
The Guiding Light is sponsored by Detroit Edison.
Where learned: TOLD AT A PARTY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Jesus
Blue Jesus and the twelve apostles will conquer the world.
Where learned: TOLD AT A PARTY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |
Graffiti
Bill Smill, can go to hill.
Submitter comment:
Found on mattress board in the dorm at U of Detroit North Quadrangle 103.
Data entry tech comment:
Informant and collector are the same person.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; DORM ROOM ; mattress board
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Art Craft Architecture Art, Craft, Architecture |